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Grammar : Verb |
Spell : vish-ee-eyt |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈvɪʃ iˌeɪt |
Definition of vitiate
Origin :- 1530s, from Latin vitiatus, past participle of vitiare "to make faulty, injure, spoil, corrupt," from vitium "fault, defect, blemish, crime, vice" (see vice (n.1)). Related: Vitiated; vitiating.
- verb cancel
- verb hurt, corrupt
- These notions are at least possible, and would they not vitiate your argument?
- Extract from : « More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II » by Charles Darwin
- Minshew interprets the verb deboshe, "to corrupt, make lewde, vitiate."
- Extract from : « Microcosmography » by John Earle
- Small-pox does not vitiate the blood of a people; this disease does.
- Extract from : « Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners » by B.G. Jefferis
- Above all, do not, by dint of judging, vitiate your faculty of tasting.
- Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 » by Various
- This, however, did not vitiate the titles of these companies to said lands.
- Extract from : « Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Volume 2 (of 14), 1899 » by Various
- Which kind of combustible used for lighting tends most to vitiate the air?
- Extract from : « The Reason Why » by Anonymous
- No mere accumulation of material property can vitiate a principle of right.
- Extract from : « The Itching Palm » by William R Scott
- They vitiate the action of every law which depends on competition.
- Extract from : « Essentials of Economic Theory » by John Bates Clark
- Vitiate not this gift with the lower thought of the art of singing.
- Extract from : « Sixty Years of California Song » by Margaret Blake-Alverson
- How much of worldly experience would it take to vitiate that integrity in her?
- Extract from : « Idolatry » by Julian Hawthorne
Synonyms for vitiate
- abate
- abolish
- abrogate
- annihilate
- annul
- blemish
- blight
- brutalize
- contaminate
- damage
- debase
- debauch
- defile
- delete
- deny
- deprave
- deteriorate
- devalue
- harm
- impair
- injure
- invalidate
- mar
- negate
- nullify
- pervert
- pollute
- prejudice
- quash
- recant
- revoke
- spoil
- sully
- taint
- tarnish
- undermine
- undo
- violate
- warp
- water down
- weaken
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